Rules:1. With the provided knife, cut out two 6" by 2" rectangles and one 3" by 3" square from the canvas.
2. Paste the square onto the canvas first.
3. Paste the rectangles next, they must overlap another shape (yours or someone else's) when you paste them on next.
4. If there is not enough cardboard left to cut out the shapes, cut out two squares of any dimension and paste them wherever.
In this exercise I chose to keep the rules relatively open-ended to
see how my classmates would build onto the canvas when given the
same pieces to work with. The end result was interesting but much
more dense than I had expected. I had envisioned it as a more
spread out composition, and had hoped that people would some
times cut shapes out from the center of the canvas so it would be
more apparent that it was an subtractive and additive process. If I
was to do this again, I would try and make it a little more
structured. It would have been interesting to have restrictions or
special rules for girls and guys, or people who are born during
certain months.
Even though the base of the canvas got small pretty quickly, and
people tried to stick to one area on it, I liked how you can see how
the canvas changed over time. At the beginning most people were
gluing the pieces flat on top of each other, but later some tried
different angles and standing the cardboard pieces up against the
others, which was unexpected but made it a more exciting final
result.
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